Two for the price of one
April was a complicated month, so I have had to postpone the log until now.
In this time I finished Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes (of which I was a backer and I even appear twice in the credits because I participated in the chorus of the final song!), Yakuza: Like a Dragon (It took me a while but I gave it the coup de grace) and I have returned to Night City because at Christmas (!) my brother gave me the DLC Phantom Liberty of Cyberpunk 2077.
Another of my gaming milestones was to return to Yakuza: Like a Dragon and Persona 5 Strikers to record the scenarios and make a comparison between the fictional districts of Kamurocho and Sotenbori from the Yakuza saga with the actual districts of Kabukicho in Tokyo and Dotonbori in Osaka, respectively.
The result (attention, self-promotion) was this video:
Oh right, and since I’ve also had to entertain my beloved nephews some afternoon, I dusted off old games with local multiplayer like Heave Ho, Boomerang Fu, Potion Explosion (discarded because you can’t play with a controller) and We ♥ Katamari (although I only had time to turn it on because I forgot the charger for the ROG Ally 😅). And since I’m weak, I bought Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge on sale so I could play with them.
And without further ado, the April and May game reports:
Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes 
Mixed feelings, I guess because of the hype of having been a backer of the game.
The game is fine, with that Suikoden-like JRPG style: turn-based role-playing with a team of up to 6 characters that can combine attacks (which are ridiculously less efficient than doing single attacks).
It has a lot of things to polish, but overall it's entertaining.
I'm giving it a higher score because I appear twice in the credits and it makes me happy 😝.
What bothers me most of all are the achievements: ridiculously gargantuan tasks to artificially lengthen the game. Sorry, I've already completed the story and my personal goal of getting all the Heroes, I don't plan to waste more time looking for chests and other nonsense.
Yakuza: Like a Dragon 
I finally finished my pending subject. After countless sidequests I started with the main story and I no longer disliked Kasuga, but let's not get excited, he's still a naive and good-natured character so typical of anime.
In the end I found the game system very repetitive and the fact that it is set in Kamurocho (you can only access at the beginning and after the endgame) makes it less fun.
Maybe the change of the game system from being an action saga to a turn-based RPG (which I confess I was attracted to at the beginning) attracted the audience and that's why it was so well valued; but I wasn't completely convinced by it.
Of course, with how well set it is, it brings back a lot of memories of our trips to Japan, so it has been a pleasure to compare reality and fiction (although I miss that there is no Don Quijote) to make the video.
I was always very critical with this game ( even though in my first gameplay I barely suffered the bugs that I saw that those who bought it on day one had) because I felt that there were solutions to quests that could have left more freedom. That hasn't changed in the new DLC (for example, it would have been nice to be able to position yourself with the antagonist at the beginning) but it does leave a bit more options, and even includes a new ending!
Even so, I really enjoyed my return to Night City (although most of the new stuff is focused on Dog Town) and I could enjoy again the possibility to deal with the problems in my own way and at my own netrunner pace (I'm a big fan of Batman and stealthy ambushing). So much to raise the score from an 8 to a 9, choom!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge 
I bought it partly to play with my nephews but in the end it has been a very pleasant surprise.
It brings back a lot of memories of playing Turtles In Time on my SNES and I love it! What's more, being able to play with up to 6 players! in local co-op is rad. Another thing that I love is that the story mode has a Super Mario 3 map and has a touch of role-playing with the characters leveling up.
You can even throw ninjas from the foot clan at the screen! What more can you ask for? Well, a great soundtrack… And it has it! I love the intro like the 80's series and the metal song of one of the last missions.
I can't say more than that I'm in love with it.
Pizza time!
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Persona 5 Strikers
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Heave Ho
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Boomerang Fu
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Potion Explosion
0.2 hours playtime
no achievements
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We Love Katamari REROLL+ Royal Reverie
My man, you have three games I want to eventually play. CP77 is the one I kept delaying out of hardware reasons, than waiting for a patch and finally waiting for the expansion. Now it’s just in limbo. Happy to hear none of the three RPGs turned out bad, though.
Congratulations on all of your assassinations!! ᓚᘏᗢ
I want to play Cyberpunk, I really do, but I got spoiled that there are no happy endings. Dare I ask.. does liberty change that?
The DLC offers 4 possible conclusions to its list of quests, of which two lead to the new ending and the rest let you continue along the path of the normal ending.
Without going too much into spoilers the new ending gives a new way out for V but it is bitter for all the consequences… It’s very “be careful what you wish for” 🤷🏽